HP's decision to shut down its PC business and sold the touch pad in the $ 99 fire sale has left many fans scrambling to grab a gadgets. The price of the tablet is clearly advantageous, but its long-term prospects for the device webOS has limited support will dry up.
With this in mind there is already an ongoing effort to get Android running on the device with Qualcomm that have a working version of the tablet from HP. But if you're not a fan of Android is an alternative: Ubuntu Linux will also work on the touchpad, and you can make the change now, if you're so inclined.
There is good news and bad news if you decide to follow tutorial on how to do more Liliputing. The good news is it webOS installed instead of replacing it so you can choose which operating system to start in a dual-boot configuration.
The bad news is that it is quite difficult to establish a procedure if it is necessary to follow the instructions carefully. There are three installation steps Preware, creating and mounting a partition extfs and finally install Ubuntu chroot 11.04.
Once Ubuntu is installed, the operating system will know that all you are left with the command line version. From there you can begin installing the software using apt-get, a first package you want to take is a graphical application as LXDE. Here's proof that you can get the Chrome browser running on the touchpad with this method:
